Muskegon

Mus·ke·gon

A city of southwest Michigan west-northwest of Grand Rapids at the mouth of the Muskegon River, which flows about 370 km (230 mi) from west-central Michigan southwest to Lake Michigan. The city grew as a lumbering center in the 1800s.x

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BIG RAPIDS, a city and the county-seat of Mecosta county, Michigan, U.S.A., on both sides of the Muskegon river, 56 m.

Big Rapids, named from the falls of the Muskegon here, was settled in 18J4.

No notable rivers flow into Lake Michigan, the largest being the Big Manistee and Muskegon on the east shore, and on the west shore the Menominee and the Fox, both of which empty into Green Bay, the most important arm of the lake.

Pop. (1900) 4743, of whom 1277 were foreign-born; (1904 state census) 5239 It is served by the Grand Trunk and the Pere Marquette railways, and by steamboat lines to Chicago, Milwaukee and other lake ports, and is connected with Grand Rapids and Muskegon by an electric line.

Most of the larger rivers of the state - the Muskegon, Grand, St Joseph, Manistee and Kalamazoo - are in the west portion of the lower peninsula.